Action Quote by Alexander von Humboldt

In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of…

— Alfred Armand Montapert

A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence…

— James Buchan

...the amazing exhibition of oil which has characterized the last twenty years, and will probably characterize the next ten or twenty years, is nevertheless,…

— Peter Lesley

Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.

— Harold Hamm

We are considering various ways of making use of our oil and gas downstream industries. This is to be complemented with the import of…

— Hassanal Bolkiah

There are some geologists involved with prospecting for oil and other hidden resources who can pick up a rock and say, 'Yes, there's oil…

— Christopher Alexander

Oil creates the illusion of a completely changed life, life without work, life for free. Oil is a resource that anaesthetises thought, blurs vision,…

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

Natural gas has been sold as clean energy. But when the gas comes from fracturing bedrock with about five million gallons of toxic water…

— Sean Lennon

We know that pumping oil out of the ground does not create many jobs. It does not foster an entrepreneurial spirit, nor does it…

— Ali al-Naimi

Do these fuels result always and necessarily in one way from the decomposition of a pre-existing organic substance? Is it thus with the hydrocarbons…

— Marcellin Berthelot

One can, then, conceive the production, by purely mineral means, of all natural hydrocarbons. The intervention of heat, of water, and of alkaline metals…

— Marcellin Berthelot

People who are good at maintaining a deep oil well will also be very helpful in converting it to a geothermal green energy source.…

— Elizabeth May